The new installment of "Ghostbusters", which opens in Spain on August 12, has many possibilities of being banned in China for mysterious reasons.
The censors of the Asian country are known to use a mechanism that rejects those films in whose plot there are ghosts or different supernatural cults and superstitions.
This is not the first time this has happened. Other famous films such as "The Scarlet Summit", and "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest", They were also banned at the time in the Asian giant country.
Despite this information, Sony has wanted to go to the step arguing that the tape has not yet been presented to the Chinese Censorship Office. And it is that the income from the film studios is the main concern of the production companies. In this sense, the Chinese market is fundamental in the commercialization of Hollywood cinema, due to its size.
Now Sony you have to wait for the movie to perform well globally. It has transpired that it is planned develop an entire cinematic universe of the franchise in the coming years as long as this reboot is profitable. The film starring Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, Melissa McCarthy and Leslie Jones will arrive in the theaters of our country on August 12.
The plot of the new installment is centered in Manhattan, in New York. Thirty years have passed and the ghosts and demons have once again escaped from the underworld to roam freely through the city. This time, the Ghostbusters team will be made up of a group of four women willing to end any paranormal threat.
Quantum physicist Erin Gilbert (Kristen Wiig) and her partner Abby Yates (Melissa McCarthy) have long been analyzing paranormal activity. And they see the opportunity to organize a new group of Ghostbusters, joined by the engineer Jillian Holtzman (Kate McKinnon) and Patty Tolan (Leslie Jones), a subway ticket clerk who knows every corner of New York.